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But the lies survived, those accepted little fictions we called history – History and lies – They survived us all.
kegs
‘Ken, Deirdre and Mike named Personalities of the Year.’
‘Foot launches bitter attack on Thatcher–Tebbit Toryism as a philosophy from which all compassion and generosity of spirit has been squeezed.’
‘Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast; – or of one thing exclusively.’
Jimmy Young kissing Thatcher’s arse on the radio, the cum drying in his y-fronts as members of the Great British Public call in – ‘Wurzel Gummidge?’ repeats Jimmy with a snigger. ‘That’s not very nice, is it?’ ‘No Jimmy, it’s not,’ you shout alone in your car. ‘And neither are you, you thick and greedy old cunt. But we’ll not forget you and your cruel ways, not when we’re round your house to do the Mussolini.’
Vardis
‘Michael Williams,’
A priest.
Hillards
a half-Charlie
Marilyn Webb.
A1 Shootings,
Disintegrating – Disappearing – Decreasing – Declining – Decaying – Dying – Dead –
thee
He doesn’t move. He just stares. He doesn’t blink. Just stares.
overfaced.’
Post Office,
‘John here’s acquired,’ smiles Bill. ‘Acquired some offices for us on Oldham Street in centre of Manchester.
Me thinking, too many cooks, too many chiefs.
He is crying, wishing he were somewhere else – Someone else – Other people; Or maybe just me – Wishing I were someone else; Crying and wishing we were all dead – Or maybe just me – Just me.
Leodis.
hypogonadism
like we’re some gang of monkeys who’ve just found their own arses without a fucking map,
A priest.
iniquitous,
You are walking in another man’s shoes – A dead man’s.
amaranth
‘Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.’ – Voltaire
Barry 4 Clare.
No hope for Britain.
You put all your fear and all your hate together and get: Yorkshire, England, 1983.